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"YSTRAD DYFODWG, in the Cwmwd of Meisgyn, Cantref of Penythen (now called the Hundred of Miskin), County of GLAMORGAN, South Wales: a Perpetual Curacy, not in charge, annexed to the Vicarage of Llan Trisaint: Patron, The Vicar of Llan Trisaint: Church dedicated to St. Tyfodwg. The Resident Population of this Parish, in 1801, was 542. The Money raised by the Parish Rates, in 1803, was, £ 222..19..1 1/2. It is 9 m. N. N. W. from Llan Trisaint. According to the Diocesan Report, in 1809, the yearly value of this Benefice, arising from Stipend, and Augmentation, was £44. It is situate near the river Rhonddu Fawr. This is a very wild and romantic part of the County; and the Parish is twelve miles in circumference, the Church standing almost in the centre of it. See, Rhigos. " [From: A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811.]

"RHONDDA, formerly named Ystradyfodwg, an extensive parish and parliamentary borough comprising several hamlets, is one of the largest coal-producing parishes Glamorganshire, and is 20 miles south-west from Merthyr Tydfil, 20 north-west from Cardiff, 25 east from Swansea and 180 from London; it is in the hundred of Miskin, petty sessional division of Lower Miskin, Pontypridd union and county court district, rural deanery of Rhondda, and archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaff." [From Kelly's South Wales Directory 1923 (ArchiveCDBooks) - transcribed by Gareth Hicks]

A cemetery of 25 acres, between Trealaw and Porth, was formed in 1879 at a cost of £14,000, for Rhondda, Llanwonno and Llantrisant. A cemetery of 15 acres was formed in 1871 at a cost of £7000, at Treorchy, and was enlarged in 1914 by the addition of 15 acres, for the parish of Rhondda; and there is also a cemetery of 5 acres at Mardy, formed in 1875, at a cost of £3600; each contains two mortuary chapels, and since April 1st, 1896, have been under the control of the Rhondda Urban District Council Burial Committee of 13 members.

The church of St. John at Ton Pentre, erected in 1893-4 in place of the ancient church, then removed, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel with side chapel, two naves, south porch, and a western turret containing 2 bells: in the church is a brass table to the Rev. William Rhys, a former Vicar of the parish, erected by his sons: the communion cup bears the date 1695; there are 450 sittings. A room for the Sunday school and mission has been erected in the churchyard. The register dates from the year 1717. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £340, with residence, and held since 1922 by the Rev. John Daniel Hughes M.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter, and surrogate.

The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and is in the Benefice of Ystradyfodwg. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS972954.

A transcription of the registers is available from the Glamorgan Family History Society for the years: Baptisms, 1717-1883, Marriages, 1717-1837, Burials, 1629-1987.

Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff

Ystradyfodwg Burial Board records 1871-1896 " ..... established about 1871, by the Ystradyfodwg parish vestry, and covered the parish of Ystradyfodwg, Rhondda (Glamorgan). In 1877, the Ystradyfodwg Local Board was set up, covering the parish of Ystradyfodwg and parts of the parishes of Llantrisant and Llanwonno. Burial boards were therefore set up in December 1879, for the 'Llantrisant District' (that part of the parish of Llantrisant which lay within the Ystradyfodwg Local Board) and the `Llanwonno District' (the part of Llanwonno parish which lay within the Local Board). These two new Boards then joined with the existing Ystradyfodwg Board to form the Ystradyfodwg Joint Burial Board..............................."

Ystradyfodwg Local Board of Health 1877-1905 "......... was created in 1877, from the Pontypridd Rural Sanitary District. It succeeded the Ystradyfodwg Parochial [Sanitary] Committee, a committee of the Pontypridd Rural Sanitary Authority which had been set up in 1872, to exercise within the parish of Ystradyfodwg all the powers of the Rural Sanitary Authority. ......................"

Rhondda Urban District Fever Hospital, at Tyntyla, was erected in 1902 and extended in 1908, at a cost of £25,000, and will hold 62 patients.

The Urban District is lit with gas and electricity supplied by the Council; the water supply is derived from springs above Blaen Rhondda, and conveyed thence to the works at Treherbert, the property of the District Council, a new reservoir was completed 1914 at Llynfawr. Part of the district is supplied water by the Pontypridd and Rhondda Joint Water Board from their works near Mardy.

Electric tramways run throughout the district, being leased by the Council to the Rhondda Tramways Co. Ltd. who also run motor omnibus services in various localities.